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191134249Springfield: Illinois State Journal Company 1911. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth clamshell case with gilt spine lettering housing 23 large foldout maps as issued. Floral pastedowns. Very good. Case slightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed with mild cracking along outer edges though expert archival inner lining maintains case shape and integrity; maps very good to near fine with no separations evident. First edition of this scarce accompaniment to the "Report Upon the Prevention of Overflow of the Little Wabash and Skillet Fork Rivers" a 40pp study authored by W.J. McEathron Leroy Lemayne Hidinger and others in 1911. The Little Wabash River is a 240-mile-long tributary of the Wabash River in southern Illinois and Skillet Fork a 98-mile-long tributary of the Little Wabash. Together they are part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. Lacks the 40-page clothbound report but a superb and complete detailed map grouping. [Illinois State Journal Company] hardcover
189812340Washington DC: United States Geological Survey 1898. Soft cover. Good. 44 pages. Descriptive text only; NO MAP. Wrappers are chipped tornand taped at the spine. Internals very good. Includes sections on the geology and geography of the area with attention to the rivers climatic conditions roots to the Klondike original deposits or quartz veins placer deposits probable extent of gold bearing deposits other metals than gold and coal and lignite. United States Geological Survey paperback books
1904033851Des Moines: The Kenyon Printing & Mfg Co / Yates & Mcclain Real Estate 1904. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. Color Map. Red Card Covers. First Issued 1902 This Is The 1904 Revision. Map 19" X 13" Colored Counties. Relief Shown By Hachures. Shows Cities Towns Rivers Railroad Lines And Congressional Districts. Includes Red Overprint "Yates & Mcclain The Hustling Real Estate Firm. 500000 Acres Of Good Fertile Land Within The Red Circle For Only $3.50 To $5.00 Per Acre." Index And Population Statistics On Verso. "Compliments Of Yates & Mclain" Etc. At Bottom Of Red Card Wrapper. Map Neatly Detached From Cover Without Damage At Glue Line Wear To Covers A Few Neat Tears Along Fold Lines Of Map Without Loss. Worldcat Shows Only The 1905 Issue Two Institutional Holdings. <br/> <br/> The Kenyon Printing & Mfg Co / Yates & Mcclain Real Estate paperback
1872010252Cairo Illinois: Cairo and Vincennes Railroad 1872. Map. Very Good. One Page. 19" h x 37" w. An apparently unrecorded original railroad map dated Feb. 1872 showing the city of Vincennes Indiana. 19' h x 37" w on translucent vellum architectural paper scale 1" = 400 feet. Very Good number 920-4 in marker bottom right corner bottom right corner clipped not affecting any details of the map bottom left corner with 2 small holes punched faint creasing and light soiling. Drawn in black with cross marks in red and the tracks of the C & V RR in blue. Details include locations of depots mills foundries and warehouses along the Wabash River Catholic Church cemetery and property street names and location of a seminary. Additionally showing are the lines of the Evansville & Crawfordsville RR Indianapolis & Vincennes RR and the Ohio & Mississippi RR. Founded in 1732 by the French Vincennes county seat of Knox County is the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in Indiana and was the first capitol of the Indiana Territory. Its population in 1870 was 5440. The Cairo & Vincennes Railroad was chartered in Illinois in 1867 by Civil War General Green B. Raum. The railroad began laying track in 1870 and was fully completed in 1874. Established to move coal from the Illinois mines one of its first Presidents was the Civil War General Ambrose Burnside. It was reorganized as the C & V Railway not railroad in 1880 confirming the date this map was drawn. From a massive collection of recently acquired rairoadiana including thousands of original railroad company maps. Cairo and Vincennes Railroad hardcover
1869009379Indianapolis: W. & J. Braden 1869. Book. Very Good Plus. Map Folded. First Printing. 12 1/4" x 30". Original map from the 1869 book open measurement 12 1/4" x 30" folds to 8 1/2" x 5 " Very Good Plus 2" tear at fold and 1/2" tear at fold light soiling to verso at main folded section. One of 3 maps from the SCARCE 1869 book. W. & J. Braden unknown
183917431839. Loose_leaf. Cream paper ink penned. Good. 27 X 22 cm. Register of costs for the ship Flora commanded by Captain Daniel Fitch sailing out of New London Connecticut while docked at a whale-fishery in Rio de Janeiro Brazil. Disbursements are recorded by ship agents to inform the ship owners of all the charges the voyage accrues while in port. Expenses include portage pilotage boarding officer's fee and goods purchased for crew - sugar coffee bread black beans and vegetables. Maxwell Wright & Co. was the owner/shipping company that oversaw the operation in Rio while N. & W. W. Billings is listed as the Managing owner or agent in Connecticut according to the Report of Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries. Text inked and elegantly penned. Folded with small tears and chips along edges affecting some text. <br/><br/> unknown books
1941003238Burlington VT: Mary Fletcher Hospital. 1941. hardcover. 68 pp Very Good/- boards soiled. Mary Fletcher Hospital hardcover
1866050052Philadelphia PA: A. McElroy 1866. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original copy rebound in black buckram spine panel lettered in gilt. Firm binding clean interior slightly toned text block edges showing slight dampstaining minimally evident along fore-edge margins in portions of text block slight spotting to front cover cloth. xii94442 pp. rear ads. Main title shows several tape repairs along gutter/fore-edge; folding house numbering plate partially separated along one fold with dampstained edge; folding map with one triangular piece along top edge detached and laid in overall nicely intact. Ideal reference copy. A. McElroy Hardcover
1844050051Philadelphia PA: Edward C. Biddle 1844. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original copy rebound in brown buckram spine panel lettered in gilt. Firm binding notably clean interior text block edges typically somewhat toned with small ink blot on lower fore-edge. 41232 pp. rear ads. In exceptional overall condition given its age ideal reference copy. Edward C. Biddle Hardcover
1847050050Philadelphia PA: Edward C. and John Biddle 1847. Book. Good. Half-Leather. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Original black 1/4 leather blue printed paper covered boards. Worn but complete a decent enough reference copy with rubbing along joints rounded corners rubbed edges. Area of surface paper loss at top front cover corner approx. 5% of cover affecting a few letters with both covers rubbed and soiled. Approx. 1/4" square hole in center of front cover extending through interior to p. 7 title almanac first several pages of text with text affected fairly minimally bottom text block corner clipped through most of text block text unaffected. Vintage signature of A. H. Chambers 13 1/2 South 4th St. as well as a Burnett signature inked on front flyleaf also inscription on rear fixed endsheet. 42820 pp. rear ads. Interior shows typical foxing mostly relatively mild with toned/soiled text block edges firm binding. Edward C. and John Biddle Hardcover
1883005375Cincinnati Ohio: Not Published 1883. Unique As Issued and framed in period gilt ornamnetal frame under glass. Diploma with original seal and ribbon 18" x 22" in frame 22 1/2" x 26 1/2". Near Fine diploma a bit wavy 1" dia. spot of age toning. Signed by The President and the Secretary of the college along with the signatures of 10 Professors from the faculty. Dr Joseph Bowlby was born 17 Feb. 1854 in Rush County Indiana and died 28 June 1906 in Shelbyville Indiana. His practice was in Shelby County and Shelbyville Indiana from his graduation until his death. He served as President of the Homestead Building and Loan Association was a Presbyterian a Mason and a Republican. The Ohio College of Medicine located in Cincinnati was active from 1819 until 1896 when it merged with the Dept. of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. Text of the diploma in Latin printed by Strobridge & Co. Lithographers of Cincinnati. A quite unique piece of medical Indiana and Ohio history. Being framed under glass this item will require extrz shipping charges- please email for estimate. . Unique As Issued. One Sheet Illustrated. Near Fine. 18" x 22". Not Published Paperback books
19820023011Easley South Carolina: Southern Historical Press 1982. Hardcover. Near Fine/None Issued. NF/Reprint. Great resource reseach copy. Clean and unmarked Small dent at bottom of front cover. Title on front and spine in gold lettering. Originally published in 1895 by the Goodspeed Brothers this reprint was published in 1982 with new material by Rev. Silas Emmett Lucas and published by Lucas at the Southern Historical Press. This book starts with a short history of Texas and proceeds to individuals who were important to the gowth of the state. 463pp. many illustrations and portraits. Individual biographies are one and a half to two pages. An excellent sturdy copy that comes to you in an acid free document bag for storage and mailed in a box. And I can have it in the mail tomorrow. <br/> <br/> Southern Historical Press hardcover
1899FD6214Washington: Government Printing Office 1899. HB. Blindstamped black cloth gilt lettering on front cover 4to 154 pp. Issued upon the death of Edward C. Cary Walthall 1831-1898 Major General in the Confederate Army who saw action at Missionary Ridge and the Battle of Franklin and was later elected to the United States Senate. Private library bookplate Harmonia Verein Bibliothek front pastedown paper label with number on spine no marks in book binding tight. Covers show minor edge wear corners bumped. Frontis portrait of Walthall with tissue guard. Book condition VG-. Uncommon. Government Printing Office hardcover
187100009705Washington: Government Publication 1871 40 pages quite nice gilt title on cloth. Binding clean tight. Government Publication hardcover
1882005359Washington: Government Printing Office 1882. Hardcover decoritively blindstamped brown cloth with upper cover boldly lettered in gold. 79pp. Illustrated with frontispiece on heavy card stock with tissue guard present. First edition. A slim tall volume containing some of the eulogies delivered upon the death of Ambrose E. Burnside. Burnside was Rhode Island governor and a U.S. senator a railroad executive the first president of the National Rifle Association and a Civil War Union Army general. He wore his facial hair in a very distinctive style which is now referred to as sideburns inspired by his last name. After being defeated in the Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater Burnside soon resigned from his position in 1865. He died on January 23rd 1882. Binding is tight all pages are firmly attached and covers and text are clean. . The covers and spine show only incidental rubbing with some fraying to the corners and spine ends. A remarkably well preserved copy of a fragile book of interest to both Civil War collectors and collectors of American political personalities. A very good copy. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Government Printing Office Hardcover
1851005089Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Treasury 1851. Paperback. Good. 10 p.; 24 cm. Disbound from a volume of unrelated 19th-century pamphlets. "7" in ink at upper right-hand corner of title page. No date of publication but published in response to the declaration in 1851 by the state treasurer John M. Bickel that the Bank of Pennsylvania was subject to the tax on dividends. Very scarce. In Good Condition: disbound; heavily foxed; otherwise clean and tight. Pennsylvania Treasury paperback
5, 5 p. Hardcover Good condition Two copies, one addresses to the House of Representatives and one addressed to the Senate
1946AM-21Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office 1946. Historic text presents contributed memorial addresses and prayer speeches made in honor of Lawrence Lewis a Democrat who was elected to the seventy-third and five succeeding Congresses in 1933 and served until his death on Dec. 9 1943. Includes Proceedings in the House and the Senate. 83 pgs. Photo frontispiece of Lewis. Gilt embossed front cover. Prior owner blaced out name on front endpaper. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. . U.S. Government Printing Office Hardcover
12843NY: The Evening Mail. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good-. J.C. Fireman and "V.E.T. This is a vanity cartoon book also known as the 'As-We-See-'Em' books which includes a number of interesting people. There is no title page and no text; only about 200 plates of caricatures by one or another of the artists who were the staff cartoonists for this newspaper. Undated but made around 1905. Rebound: was originally bound in soft leather and the scarred front cover of the original has been applied to the new leather cover. New binding in excellent condition; overall vg- as there are occasional light marginal stains on the plates. Notables include B.F. Yoakum H.E. Huntington and W.K. Vanderbilt railroad barons Isaac and Solomon R. Guggenheim bankers and industrialists; also there is Wm. Guggenheim apparently a black sheep who travelled a lot John R. Dos Passos leaving a trail of books behind him Henry D. Estabrook lawyer Thomas A. Edison who seems to have wired the celestial bodies together Chauncey M. Depew attorney for Vanderbilt's railroad cartel and from 1899-1911 a US Senator Spencer Trask educator and a quite prescient drawing of Judge Albert B. Fall who became the 'fall' guy for the Teapot Dome scandal in 1921. He is shown here taking a miner's pick to a thick book of mining law on behalf of the corporations. <br/> <br/> The Evening Mail hardcover
191541862St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Company 1915. 2 volumes thick 8vo pp. 540 520; chiefly black and white photographic illustrations; uniformly bound in contemporary brown morocco gilt spines in 6 compartments a.e.g. marbled endpapers; extremities rubbed slight discoloration to fore-edge of the second volume's upper cover else a very good attractive set. Second volume published by R.L. Polk & Co. Minnesota Historical Company unknown
191541862St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Company 1915. 2 volumes thick 8vo pp. 540 520; chiefly black and white photographic illustrations; uniformly bound in contemporary brown morocco gilt spines in 6 compartments a.e.g. marbled endpapers; extremities rubbed slight discoloration to fore-edge of the second volume's upper cover else a very good attractive set. Second volume published by R.L. Polk & Co. <br/><br/> Minnesota Historical Company unknown books
1903W2.127San Francisco: Pacific Art Company 1903. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. overall light rubbing to dark purple leather covers. rear cover moderately sun faded. all edges gilt with wear to gilding. marbled endpapers with nicely gilded edge decorations. 634pp. Pacific Art Company Hardcover
18881363Boston: John A. Lowell & Co. 1888. Cards. Illustrated folding cards. Very good. 17 x 11 cm. Cover engraved by John A. Lowell & Co. portrays a Civil War Soldier rear cover portrays an ad for the Central Hotel No. 6 Canal Street Providence R.I. Interior: Field and Staff listed Bill of Fare including Breakfast Dinner And Supper. <br/><br/> John A. Lowell & Co. unknown books
188311701883. Stiff wraps. Cream card stock. Very good. 4 pages. 9 x 7 cm. Charming embossed miniature menu. Sunday June 29 1883. The city of Moorhead located next to the Red River served as a transfer point for goods and passengers between the Twin Cities and Winnipeg. Originally a destination for the riverboat crowd The Northern Pacific Railroad brought travelers to the area who were partial to first-rate dining. Menu highlights: Spring Lamb with Mint Sauce Baron Pork with Piquant Sauce Champagne Punch French Sardines Sweet Breads larded with French Peas Cocoanut Cream Pie Charlotte Russe en Cases. With original string and clasp. <br/><br/> paperback books
1115Cards. Cream cards. Very good. 35 x 7.5 cm. Charming tri-fold menu. Sunday June 25 1882. The city of Moorhead located next to the Red River served as a transfer point for goods and passengers between the Twin Cities and Winnipeg. Originally a destination for the riverboat crowd The Northern Pacific Railroad brought travelers to the area who were partial to first-rate dining. Menu highlights: Mock Turtle Soup Broiled Shad Fresh Lobster German Plum Pudding with Brandy Sauce Italian Ice Cream and Rum Jelly. Edges all gilt architectural illustration on flap. <br/><br/> unknown books
